Angela Duckworth #3 (on bringing out your best)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- September 9, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 1m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 9, 2026
Discusses Angela Duckworth (Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best, Grit) is a psycholo…
Summary
Angela Duckworth (Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best, Grit) is a psychologist, MacArthur Fellow, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Angela returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss nearly drowning while trying to save her mother, apologizing 15 years later to an author she treated poorly, and how a graduate student…
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Angela Duckworth (Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best, Grit) is a psychologist, MacArthur Fellow, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Angela returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss nearly drowning while trying to save her mother, apologizing 15 years later to an author she treated poorly, and how a graduate student’s critique of Grit changed the direction of her work. Angela and Dax talk about why achieving goals rarely delivers happiness, how Leon Marcha